A report released yesterday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in Washington claims ďAbout 1.4 million firearms were stolen during household burglaries and other property crimes over the six-year period from 2005 through 2010. ďOf the guns stolen each year during burglaries and other property crimes, at least 80 percent, or an annual average of 186,800 firearms, had not been recovered up to six months after being stolen,Ē the BJS press release states. That certainly sounds ominous. And itís what the media and those interested in ratcheting down on the nationís gun laws will be focused on, as cherry-picking from...

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (CBS) Ė New Jersey governor Chris Christie lashed out at the media during a news conference Friday afternoon over ďcareless reportingĒ in the aftermath of Sandy. After being asked a question about a price gouging lawsuit concerning Bergen County, the governor began his answer by saying, ďI want to be clear on this because you guys are starting to really misreport things. We were not part of the lawsuit.Ē Christie then referenced an article that was posted by a business news institution earlier in the week claiming the governor called the President to congratulate him and only...

-- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released the results of an informal exit poll on Friday that shows more than 85 percent of American Muslim voters picked President Barack Obama in Tuesday's election.That number is lower than a similar poll conducted in 2008 that showed 89 percent of American Muslims cast a ballot for Obama.CAIR conducted the informal survey of 650 American Muslim voters, with just 4 percent of respondents stating that they voted for Mitt Romney.Poll findings: 95.5 percent of the Muslim voters said they went to the polls on Nov. 6.85.7 percent cast their ballots to re-elect...

Amid the ruin and rubble of the gray morning after, it may seem in poor taste to do anything so vulgar as plug the new and stunningly topical paperback edition of my book, "After America" ó or, as Dennis Miller retitled it on the radio the other day, "Wednesday." But the business of America is business, as Calvin Coolidge said long ago in an alternative universe, and I certainly could use a little. So I'm going to be vulgar and plug away. The central question of "Wednesday" ó I mean, "After America" ó is whether the Brokest Nation In History...

OPEC acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that technology for extracting oil and gas from shale is changing the global supply picture significantly, and said demand for crude will rise more slowly than it had previously expected. In its annual World Oil Outlook, OPEC cut its forecast of global oil demand to 2016 due to economic weakness and also increased its forecast of supplies from countries outside the 12-nation exporters' group. "Given recent significant increases in North American shale oil and shale gas production, it is now clear that these resources might play an increasingly important role in non-OPEC...

Various supporters of President Obama ó the ones who pulled out their wallets and turned out their constituencies for his reelection ó will soon be coming to call at the White House. Knock, knock... Hey, itís the Human Rights Campaign, which wants to see a second Obama administration make gay rights an even bigger priority than it did in the last four years. HRC president Chad Griffin told our colleague Ned Martel the day after the election that his organization would love to see an openly gay Cabinet secretary and an openly gay ambassador to a G-20 nation. Both would...

A day after Barack Obama earned a second term in the White House, Papa John's founder and CEO John Schnatter said the president's signature health-care reform law would increase his business costs and possibly result in employees' hours being cut. Schnatter, a part-time Naples resident, made the comments Wednesday night inside a small auditorium at Edison State College's Collier County campus. In August, he made national headlines after telling shareholders the Affordable Care Act ó commonly known as Obamacare ó would result in a 10- to 14-cent increase for customers buying a pizza. "I got in a bunch of trouble...

With President Obama safely re-elected to a second term, federal workers feel comfortable to make their demands known. As debate rages over lowering the federal deficit, they want a pay raise. As CNN's Money magazine reports: [Union president Colleen M.] Kelley said her No. 1 issue right now is getting federal worker salaries unfrozen on Jan. 1, even if that means working out a deal later in the year and making pay hikes retroactive to Jan. 1. In the midst of that, federal workers are also nervous about the fiscal cliff , which includes $1.2 trillion worth of spending cuts...

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This time around, all the major voter consolidation processes appear to have worked to the advantage of Mr Barack Obama. Eight years earlier, those processes had favoured Mr George Bush Right after President Barack Obama won his second term, there were the obvious questions about the wider implications of his mandate. At one level, these questions were lazy and misleading. In election after election, political pundits óand this writer is not excluded ófaithfully identify long-term trends only to find that there is no long-term trend. That comment may sound facetious and overstated but, nevertheless, cannot be dismissed. Take Mr Obamaís...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sees no reason to celebrate the reelection of US President Barack Obama. The US aggressively pursued and ďpersecutedĒ the whistleblower site under a Democratic administration, he explained. ďObama seems to be a nice man, and that is precisely the problem,Ē the 41-year-old told AFP, speaking from his room in Londonís Ecuadorian embassy. ďIt's better to have a sheep in wolf's clothing than a wolf in sheep's clothing,Ē he said. ďAll of the activities against WikiLeaks by the United States have occurred under an Obama administration.Ē Assange was equally critical of the Republican, saying it ďhas not...

Over at the always interesting Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, Jason Brennan has a contemplative post about the Bush-era anti-terror policies that Obama‚Äôs supporters voted to continue. These are the same voters ¬ó and candidate, mind you ¬ó who once decried Dubya‚Äôs anti-terror policies of Gitmo, drones, supposed ‚Äútorture,‚ÄĚ and all the rest as crimes against humanity worthy of charges at the International Criminal Court. Yet, in four years, Obama has implemented Bush‚Äôs anti-terror policies harder and more bluntly. And Obamaphiles and others who once took to the streets and the blogopshere to protest Bush‚Äôs ‚Äúcrimes‚ÄĚ happily voted for the current...

(CNSNews.com) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released the results of an informal exit poll on Friday that shows more than 85 percent of American Muslim voters picked President Barack Obama in Tuesday's election. That number is lower than a similar poll conducted in 2008 that showed 89 percent of American Muslims cast a ballot for Obama. CAIR conducted the informal survey of 650 American Muslim voters, with just 4 percent of respondents stating that they voted for Mitt Romney. Poll findings: 95.5 percent of the Muslim voters said they went to the polls on Nov. 6. 85.7 percent...

David Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, abruptly resigned Friday as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, according to a new report.

President Obama must have run the greatest campaign in the history of campaigns (and he's been telling us he did too). First he got over 99% of the vote in places where GOP inspectors were kicked out in Pennsylvania, then he got 100% of the vote in 21 districts in Cleveland. Now he's done it again! Down in Broward County, Florida, Mr. Obama came away with more votes than he garnered in 2008, a particularly staggering accomplishment considering he received fewer state-wide totals in both Florida and across the country. How exactly did he accomplish this? Well, in part thanks...

Just two days after President Obamaís re-election, the Obama Interior Department announced a plan to shut down 1.6 million acres of federal land to oil shale development. The land had originally been slated for drilling under President George W. Bush. ďBy significantly reducing the acreage of wilderness potentially available for leasing, Secretary Salazar is laying out a creative, thoughtful and more responsible approach in managing some of our most precious resources,Ē said Bobby McEnaney, senior lands analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Unless you are a dead democrat voter stuck in a graveyard, you will notice an awful LOT of businesses are laying people off right for the last three days. It finally hit me, is Atlas starting to shrug or is it merely shuddering only to fall asleep again? Is this a sign of shrugging or is it a sign of the dragon shuddering only to roll over and fall back asleep again?

Iím here to tell you something. In short: I am impressed. As a propagandist, you have achieved everything I set out to do. You soared to victory this week like a Bundesadler in a Leni Riefenstahl film. Iím amazed der Juden and der junge are so devoted to your cause, as it seems you are determined to extinguish both. But what really impresses me is the blind faith with which more than half of America follows you. These are people who couldnít care less about politics, yet somehow they are in a trance. Why? Because you promised them you care....